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May 16, 2019 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
Approximately one month ago, I made public the desecration of my church by a group of persons who remain at large, even though every house in the street is outfitted with Close Circuit Television (CCTV) systems. (Desecration is the act of depriving something of its sacred character, or the disrespectful, contemptuous, or destructive treatment of that which is held to be sacred or holy by a group or individual).
My church is a Sabbath keeping church located directly to the south of the Cummings Lodge Secondary School, just behind the metal work establishment across Sixth Street in Cummings Lodge. This incident occurred on our Sabbath, which starts at sundown Friday until sundown Saturday, so the incident took place sometime between eleven and the early hours of Saturday morning, based on the condition of the remains.
Upon our arrival at church that morning, we were greeted by the sheer stench of blood and animal faeces all over the northern portion of our estate. There remained the heads of five cows and we later found out from the owners that one of the animals was pregnant. During my conversation with a church member who is domiciled overseas, she told me that a similar incident occurred while I was away from the jurisdiction for an extended period many years ago. On that occasion, several sheep were slaughtered on our premises.
While the desecration of places of worship is an ancient practice carried out to obtain various objectives, one cannot immediately classify this particular incident as being synonymous with any form of religious intolerance, persecution or vendetta as the church has been located in that vicinity for over twelve years, and enjoyed relative peace, even with minimum security. We often felt, and are still of the view, that had the church been located in most other places, especially in Georgetown, it would have been seriously vandalised like so many others a long time ago.
I therefore consider it my civic responsibility to provide the necessary awareness to the reading public in an attempt to prevent any entity whether religious or political from being blamed for fomenting unrest at a time when Guyana is preparing for its most crucial elections ever. As an investigator and intelligence operative, it would be remiss of me not to provide the readership with a historical background for clarity of view (and this is my personal position, which is subject to professional bias).
When we bought the land to erect the church, I took particular note of several pieces of misinformation provided us by the previous owner. After a series of misinformation and we settled down into our new church, I was fed on several occasions the strangest piece of information in my church going life: that my pastor has been told repeatedly by the previous owner of the estate that if the church ever wants to sell back the estate, he should be considered as first preference. I lived with that bit of information in my mind for the last five or six years and often wondered why it was said, and where it might lead. While I am in no way implying that this gentleman is responsible, I could not help resisting the temptation to relocate the church and use that plot of land to erect a four storied residential complex to house students enlisted in the institutions of higher learning in the immediate vicinity; after all it’s ours to keep.
Clairmont Featherstone
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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